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Sentences Containing 'emollient'

Milk, oil, and emollient fomentations, were then employed with success."

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subpoena - writ(written command issued by a court) summoning a witness to appear in court; V: summon with a subpoenaintolerant - not willing to accept ways of thinking different from one's own; CF. tolerant; CF. tolerateleniency - mildness; permissiveness; ADJ. lenient: not severe in judgment or punishmentterrestrial - on or relating to the earthinflux - flowing intorationalize - make rational; devise false reasons for (one's behavior); offer an excuse; give a plausible reason for an action in place of a true, less admirable ones; N. rationalizationaverse - reluctant; disinclined; not liking or opposed; Ex. averse to cats/doing the house workaberration - deviation from the normal; mental disorderslew - large quantity or number; Ex. slew of errands leftslough - (of a snake) shed or cast off (dead outer skin); N: outer layer that is shed